12 Tressler Partners Selected in the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®

We are proud to announce that Tressler partners Mark T. Banovetz, Daniel J. Cunningham, Daniel R, Formeller, Timothy M. Jabbour, Donald G. Machalinski, Mary E. McPherson, William K McVisk, Jennifer S. Perdigao, Todd S. Schenk, Linda J. Schneider,  Anthony M. Tessitore and Rosa M. Tumialán were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 31st Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.  Congratulations to all! 

Learn more about Tressler's award-winning attorneys:

Chicago, Illinois

Mark T. Banovetz: Insurance Law

Mark is a partner at Tressler and is a member of the firm’s three-person Executive Committee. His practice includes general litigation, insurance coverage analysis, and coverage litigation. Mark’s practice includes representation of pilots, airports, fixed base operators, maintenance facilities, and aviation suppliers and manufacturers. He also has substantial experience representing energy companies in the defense of claims involving aircraft accidents arising from aircraft impacts with ground based structures. Mark lectures and provides counsel to industries in regard to FAA regulations on the marking and lighting of obstructions under the FAA’s regulation of the national airspace system.

Daniel J. Cunningham: Insurance Law

Dan's practice involves insurance coverage and bad faith litigation stemming from underlying consumer protection claims, privacy claims, intellectual property claims, personal and advertising injury claims, defective product claims and environmental claims. Dan has represented insurers in all aspects of litigation throughout the country and has developed skill in successfully asserting coverage defenses arising out of underlying class action lawsuits. Dan frequently represents insurer interests with regard to coverage disputes arising out of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act. He is also involved in counseling insurers with regard to claims arising under various federal and state statutes governing the protection of personal data.

Daniel R. Formeller: Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance

Dan is Chairman of the firm. As a trial lawyer based in the firm’s Chicago office, Dan focuses his practice on business litigation and the resolution of business disputes through mediation and arbitration. Dan handles a wide variety of complex business litigation and counseling, including intellectual property, state and federal securities actions, anti-trust, ERISA, class actions and directors and officers liability matters. He has been lead trial counsel in bench and jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the United States. 



Donald G. Machalinski: Aviation Law, Transportation Law

Don is Co-chair of the Aviation and Transportation Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in aviation, product, professional and premises liability litigation and his practice also includes insurance coverage litigation. Don has an active casualty trial practice as well as an appellate practice for both liability and coverage matters.

William K. McVisk: Healthcare Law, Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance

Bill focuses his practice on complex insurance coverage litigation and hospital law and medical liability. He has handled all areas of coverage and bad faith litigation, especially third-party bad faith and coverage litigation involving commercial general liability, professional liability coverages as well as personal lines coverages such as auto and homeowners coverages.



Todd S. Schenk: Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance

Todd is a member of Tressler's three-person Executive Committee. He is highly experienced in providing insurance coverage counseling and litigation representation to insurance companies. Todd is particularly skilled in handling third party claims involving advertising injury and product liability, and first party claims under residential and commercial property policies. Many of his cases require the defense of common law and statutory bad faith claims, which Todd litigates in venues around the country. He has also handled appeals in both state and federal courts around the country.



Linda J. Schneider: Aviation Law

Linda concentrates her practice in the areas of aviation, product and general civil litigation. She has represented clients in commercial and general aviation matters, including issues of flight instruction, aircraft maintenance and rebuild, component part design and performance, and alleged airline and airport negligence, as well as matters involving the NTSB and the FAA. She has been involved in litigation arising out of the ValuJet Flight 592, Comair Flight 3272, Comair Flight 5191 and Concorde crashes, the Southwest Flight 1248 overrun at Midway Airport, and many other commercial and general aviation accidents and incidents.




Rosa M. Tumialán: Appellate Practice, Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance

Rosa is Co-Chair of Tressler's Insurance Services Practice Group and Chair of Tressler's Appellate team and focuses her practice on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. She is an accomplished defense attorney with nearly twenty years of insurance coverage experience. Rosa’s insurer-related services include coverage opinion analysis and representing insurers in complex coverage disputes relating to personal and commercial lines, third party claims, surplus lines as well as claims handling practices and extracontractual liability. Rosa also assists with drafting coverage documents for insurance pools and counsels clients in the administration of same. Her practice also includes serving as national coordinating coverage counsel for insurance clients who rely on her to develop and implement strategies nationwide in response to pattern litigation. Rosa is an accomplished class action defense lawyer and appellate practitioner, having appeared and argued in both state and federal courts nationwide

Los Angeles, California.

Jennifer S. Perdigao: Aviation Law

Jennifer is a partner and Co-Chair of the Aviation and Transportation Practice Group. She is Managing Partner of Tressler's Los Angeles, California office. Her practice includes insurance coverage and defense as well as non-insurance advisory matters. Jennifer’s insurance coverage experience includes insurance coverage analysis and insurance litigation involving commercial general liability, aviation operations, personal and advertising injury, construction defects, environmental coverage and professional lines. Jennifer’s defense litigation experience involves a wide range of matters including the defense of wrongful death, personal injury and property damage claims arising out of premises, aviation accidents, airport operations, motor vehicle accidents and products liability. 

Orange County, California

Mary E. McPherson: Insurance Law

Mary handles complex coverage matters exclusively on behalf of the insurance industry. She is highly experienced in counseling and representing insurers in complex bad faith, asbestos, construction defect, additional insured, personal injury, environmental and primary/excess coverage issues on a nationwide basis.  Mary is often brought in by insurers to assess and troubleshoot complex coverage issues in high exposure tort cases and assist them in reaching global settlements.

Morristown, New Jersey



Timothy M. Jabbour: Insurance Law

Tim is a member of Tressler's three-person Executive Committee and Managing Partner of Tressler's New Jersey office. His practice focuses on the representation of foreign and domestic insurers in both state and federal courts. Tim has nearly 20 years of experience litigating defense matters and complex insurance coverage disputes in New Jersey and across the country. His extensive litigation experience includes handling complex coverage and defense matters across various lines including property/casualty, complex pollution/toxic tort, professional liability, products liability, employment practices liability, cyber/privacy liability, aviation and marine.



Anthony M. Tessitore: Insurance Law

Anthony focuses his practice on the handling of complex civil matters including a wide array of insurance defense and coverage disputes. He has represented various domestic and foreign insurers in both litigated and non-litigated matters and has appeared in both State and Federal Courts on behalf of his clients. Anthony’s practice includes advising and representing clients across various business lines including with respect to: complex general liability matters, technology, cyber, and media related risks, environmental, toxic tort & health hazard claims, professional liability and malpractice matters, first party property losses, accident and health claims, aviation related disputes, employment practices liability, and intellectual property/coverage B claims. He is regularly asked to advise insurers on questions regarding alternative risk transfer under comprehensive general liability and other policies.

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ABOUT TRESSLER LLP

Headquartered in Chicago, with eight offices located in five states, Tressler LLP is a national law firm comprised primarily of attorneys who devote their practice to the representation of the insurance industry in coverage analysis and resolution, litigation, underwriting consultation, product development, claims management and reinsurance.

In addition, Tressler has one of the most experienced and multi-faceted government law practices in Illinois, and has attorneys who represent clients in commercial litigation, defense litigation, corporate transactions, employment law and litigation, intellectual property and condominium and common interest community association law.

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